A growing body of literature provides insight into the ingredients for academic success for
underrepresented ethnic minority students at all points of the academic pipeline. Theory and …

John Ogbu has studied minority education from a comparative perspective for over 30 years.
The study reported in this book--jointly sponsored by the community and the school district in …

Abstract The Williams vs the State of California class action suit on behalf of poor children in
that state argues that California provides a fundamentally inequitable education to students …

This article shows the pattern of socioeconomic class differences in schooling outcomes and
indicates some of the causes for those differences that lie within the public realm. Those …

Despite increases in the representation of African American and Hispanic youth in advanced
math courses in high school over the past two decades, recent national reports indicate that …

This field report investigates how the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID)
program, a college-readiness system targeting populations traditionally underrepresented in …

Este artículo tiene como objetivo principal conocer el efecto del tipo de centro educativo y,
en concreto, su titularidad (pública o privada) sobre los resultados de los usuarios del …

'Beginning with a remarkably comprehensive and accessible analysis of the gap's causes,
the book offers a refreshingly balanced, evidence-based, state-of-the-art outline of …

Gender and race/ethnicity function as major axes of social stratification in the United States,
and males and those from White backgrounds have historically occupied a position of …

The relation between academic race stereotype endorsement and academic self-concept
was examined in two studies of seventh-and eighth-grade African Americans. Based on …